§ 49. Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of taxation in sterling per head of the population in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and in Germany in 1913–14 and for each of the post-War years to the latest convenient date?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENWith my hon. Friend's permission, I will circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT. But I must point out that such international comparisons are apt to be very misleading on account of differences, e.g., of 1910 national wealth or of political institutions. No account is taken of the German States taxation.
§ Following is the statement:
| Taxation per head in sterling. | |||||||
| — | United Kingdom. | Germany (a). | |||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| 1913–14 | … | 3 | 11 | 4 (b) | 1 | 10 | 8 |
| 1920–21 | … | 22 | 0 | 8 (b) | (c) | ||
| 1921–22 | … | 18 | 1 | 10 (b) | (c) | ||
| 1922–23 | … | 17 | 8 | 1 | (c) | ||
| 1923–24 | … | 16 | 2 | 5 | (c) | ||
| 1924–25 | … | 15 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| (18.682=£) | |||||||
| 1925–26 | … | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 1926–27 | … | 14 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| (per) | |||||||
| 1927–28 | … | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| (per) | |||||||
| 1928–29 | … | 15 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 8 |
| (per) | |||||||
| (a) Excluding States. | |||||||
| (b) Including Irish Free State. | |||||||
| (c) Owing to the depreciation of the paper mark, the annual returns of tax revenue during the period 1919 to 1924 are of no statistical value. |